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[WI] D. Walcott ‘The Soiler’s Return’ Coll. Poems (1986) 458: Cadaverous Dante, big-guts Rabelais.
at -guts, sfx
[WI] D. Walcott ‘Pocomania’ Coll. Poems (1986) 32: Till [...] Babylon is yonder green, / Till dirty-holy roller feels / The obscene breeding the unseen.
at Holy Roller, n.
[WI] D. Walcott ‘Tales on the Islands’ in Coll. Poems (1986) 24: Poopa, da’ was a fete!
at papa!, excl.
[WI] D. Walcott ‘Tales on the Islands’ in Coll. Poems (1986) 25: They catch his wife with two tests up the beach.
at test, n.1
[WI] D. Walcott ‘Another Life’ Coll. Poems (1986) 162: The seven-foot-high bum-boatman.
at bum-boat, n.
[WI] D. Walcott ‘The Spoiler’s Return’ Coll. Poems (1986) 437: Things ain’t go change [...] The poor still poor, whatever arse they catch.
at arse, n.
[WI] D. Walcott ‘The Spoiler’s Return’ Coll. Poems (1986) 434: This ain’t the Dark Ages, is just Trinidad, / is human nature, Spoiler, after all, / it ain’t big genocide, is just bohbohl.
at bobol, n.
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